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ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Over 120 million Americans across 28 states remain on alert for dangerously hot and humid weather on Wednesday as a heat wave continues to bake the eastern half of the country. But relief is on the way beginning Thursday in the Northeast.Parts of Louisiana and most of Mississippi are under extreme heat warnings on Wednesday, with heat indices -- what the temperature feels like with […]

(NEW YORK) -- After a gunman opened fire in a New York City office building and killed four people, experts expressed some concerns regarding security in workplace environments.Four people were killed and one was injured on Monday after police say 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura entered a Midtown Manhattan office building -- which is home to the NFL headquarters -- wearing body armor and opened fire with a high-powered rifle, according to authorities.Donald […]

(NEW YORK) -- After a gunman opened fire in a New York City office building and killed four people, experts expressed some concerns regarding security in workplace environments.Four people were killed and one was injured on Monday after police say 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura entered a Midtown Manhattan office building -- which is home to the NFL headquarters -- wearing body armor and opened fire with a high-powered rifle, according to authorities.Donald […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Pacific coast, sparking tsunami warnings and evacuations of coastal areas in Hawaii and alerts along the U.S. West Coast.LatestIn Russia, a camera captured the eruption of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano -- the highest mountain in the region -- sending hot lava down its western slope.In the U.S., President Donald Trump on social media urged people to "STAY STRONG AND […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Pacific coast on Tuesday, sparking tsunami warnings -- and evacuations of coastal areas -- in Hawaii and alerts all down the U.S. West Coast.After the initial tsunami waves had washed ashore in Hawaii and along the West Coast, officials with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reduced the alert level for the Hawaiian islands to a tsunami advisory. Local officials […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Ghislaine Maxwell appealed to Congress on Tuesday to push for a pardon so she can "testify openly and honestly" about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a letter from her attorney.The overt pitch for clemency came in a letter to the House Oversight Committee which had subpoenaed Maxwell for testimony and records.In a response to Chairman James Comer, Maxwell's defense attorney David Markus said she would invoke […]

(NEW YORK) -- The man who opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building, killing four people and wounding a fifth, appeared to be targeting the NFL headquarters and had a note claiming he suffered from CTE, police sources told ABC News.Shane Tamura drove across the country with a semiautomatic rifle and then carried out a mass shooting on Monday in the building that's home to the NFL's offices, officials […]

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Arkansas police have released a sketch of a person of interest sought in connection with a double homicide at Devil's Den State Park, where a married couple was found dead while hiking with their two young children over the weekend.Arkansas State Police released a composite sketch of a man seen in Devil's Den State Park on Saturday, the day of the killings."Investigators have asked the public for help […]

Wesley LePatner in New York City, Jan. 13, 2019./Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Four people were killed and a fifth was injured in a mass shooting at a Midtown Manhattan office building on Monday.Among those killed was an officer who was a dad of two with a third on the way.Here's what we know about the victims:Didarul IslamDidarul Islam was an off-duty New York Police officer […]